I go through this How to concatenate multiple strings in android XML? and in the end there are comments that
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No I don't think you can concatenate.
aaa
bbb @string/aaa
Output - bbb @string/aaa
If you do,
aaa
@string/aaa bbb -> This won't work it
will give compilation error
Because here it will search for a String with reference @string/aaa bbb
which does not exists.
Problem in your case was, you where using @strings/aaa
which should be @string/aaa